August 23, 2013 - As stated above, many of the upcoming comics will deal with storylines regarding rape. I'm going to try my best to make note of any comics specifically in the archive (and I possibly should go back and amend some pages to include trigger warnings), but in the interest of finding a compromise that is both sensitive to survivors of rape and not spoiling future storylines, I've decided to put up a trigger warning at the top of the main page as well as place this paragraph at the top of the blog with considerable lead time before the comics depicting such situations are posted.

I've talked enough about the low conviction rate of rape in other blogs, so I'm just going to link to this graphic showing what happens in the UK (or rather England and Wales). As far as I know the US is about the same or potentially a little bit worse, but unfortunately many US sources conflate rapes and rapists not accounting for the fact that many rapists are serial offenders who commit several crimes before being convicted (or even prosecuted). All of this information is extremely depressing, but the hope is that discussing and criticizing these problems can bring about change.

See you Monday.

-D